$500,000 in 2007 for parking? Seriously Clinton?

[bicentennial_baby]

Those are some slick money management skills. :rofl:

Actually, I'd be interested to compare odd expenses like this for all major candidates, if for no other reason than to prove even more strongly that campaign spending is soooooo far out of control, on all sides.

:hi:

[sniffa]

1. But if that includes the private jet parking

is it really that bad? :shrug:

[K Gardner]

31. Or the Hill O Copter.

[rinsd]

2. You can on opensecrets

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008

Just select a candidate then go to expenditures.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Sweet! Thank you!

:hi:

[cbayer]

15. can you help me see where the parking expenses are there?

[bigwillq]

18. I can't find any of the detailed expenses

I clicked on expenditures but it didn't give me a candidate by candidate account.

HELP!

[rinsd]

26. Here ya go

Obama's expenditures - http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/expend.asp?id=N00009638&cycle=2008

Hillary's - http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/expend.asp?id=N00000019&cycle=2008

You have to click in each sub section then go thru the records 25 at a time. There is no search feature and its a pain in the ass but its the best we have.

[bigwillq]

30. Thanks for those links.

:hi:

[rinsd]

32. Psssssst

Don't tell anyone but I was there in Glendale!


Go Blue!

:hi:

[bigwillq]

34. How cool!

:bounce:

[cbayer]

33. I got there but I still can't find anything about parking. Appreciate the help, tho.

[rinsd]

37. I found about $17K in parking expense under misc adminstrative.

But as you can see the format makes research for specific expenses difficult.

[rinsd]

24. You have to dig unfortunately.

[Hieronymus]

3. No fucking wonder they're out of money.

[TexasObserver]

5. Hillary will be ready for valet parking on Day One!!

[bunnies]

6. You must utter no disparaging words about the 'lady'.

Kneel and Obey. You've been warned.

[TexasObserver]

7. Truthfully, it sounds like some kind of slush fund to cover things

the campaign cannot report as legit expenses

[elehhhhna]

11. the limo/hooker service? lol

[TexasObserver]

14. there's just no telling

Booze, partying, hotel rooms, charges for movies in the room, whatever they don't want showing up on an official report.

I am familiar with the habits of some of the Clinton mafia members, and let's just say standard procedure is to play fast and loose with the money, and say whatever it takes to skate by.

[thunder rising]

8. Private Jet parking for TWO (2) jets. Hillary is too good to ride with lowly reporters! Until now!

[cbayer]

9. self delete

see it now

[bicentennial_baby]

10. It was reported on MSNBC

[BlackVelvet04]

12. Why is it you can't click on Obama's to see the

breakdown on each category?

And where do you see $500,000 for parking?

Hillary spent in Travel $7,795,192

Barack spent in travel $45,982,064

We can't see the breakdown of how his travel money was spent.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. It was reported on television

MSNBC, to be exact. I just thought it was funny. relax.

[cbayer]

20. Oh, so it was your intention to introduce some humor into this site?

[MyNameGoesHere]

21. MSN(o)B(ama)C Network said that?

Well they should know, the bias is as bad as faux now.

[MADem]

27. Ahhh, MSGOP. Countdown is apologizing to the Clintons for something, per KO...

Dunno what that's about...

[Nailzberg]

23. The parking number was on Hardball. And your travel $ for Obama is off.

$8,411,879 for Obama, the 45mil figure you have is the total for all candidates.


I don't think 500,000 is outrageous. Neither did Tweety when he mentioned it, it was just one of those Number of the Day things before heading off to commercial. You have a lot of staff or volunteers in a city, you need to reimburse a shitload of parking receipts. Nothing strange about that.

[BlackVelvet04]

41. Funny that....

I copied and pasted it from the website that now looks different. Before you couldn't click on his for the breakdown....now the numbers are different and the categories are clickable.

[rinsd]

28. You have to dig thru the records whcih is a royal pain in the ass.

[sam sarrha]

16. it is all valet parking for a lot of people who dont want to stand around in the open for obvious

reasons, they have to rent cars where ever they go, chauffeurs have to wait and pick them up, they leave their cars in airports, there are a lot of people in a lot of places, it could add up wits insurance and all..

[Shine]

17. I read in the paper today that the Obama campaign spent $352 on Dunkin Donuts

during the last three mos of '07. For some reason, I found that highly amusing.

It was part of a list of misc. expenses his campaign had racked up.

:hi:

[Tweed]

35. There are so many Dunkin Donuts in Chicago

Your money sometimes justs end up in there via osmosis. No, I swear. I don't have urges to buy donuts from one of Chicago's million DD locations. I watch my weight, no really!

[Kittycat]

39. I might need to add a sub-section to our budget just to account for such an expense.

Damn their coffee & fritters.

In other news... I noticed several Obama pictures, that he brings DD to the support staff & workers. I noticed another candidate took Krispy Kreme once, can't remember who though.

[Stephanie]

43. That's volunteer snacks

A necessary expenditure!

[cbayer]

19. I am going to have to call BS on this until someone gives me a link.

"I just heard it on MSNBC" just doesn't cut it for me.
And shame on everyone who jumps on this without getting the facts for themselves.

[Catherine Vincent]

22. Regardless, it got the five recs. nt

[cbayer]

29. Yep, that's what happens everytime someone posts something like this.

And I appreciate the OP's request for more information to compare all candidates, but some people here never get past the title of the OP and recommend based on that. Sometimes they even get tricked, and that IS humorous.

[NYCGirl]

25. Here is a link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020704233_2.html

During Clinton's 2006 Senate race, several high-ranking aides voiced concerns about loose financial controls over such things as office supplies and advertising. The current campaign appears to be run more frugally, with headquarters in Virginia rather than on K Street. But the campaign's latest reports still show unusual expenditures, such as nearly $500,000 last year for parking costs.

[cbayer]

38. Appreciate the link.

It also says:
A review of both campaigns' financial filings show they aggressively spent money last year. Both spent more than $80 million before heading into the January primary season, including similar amounts on travel and events.

[K Gardner]

42. Clinton Consulting Expenditures: $4 million

Clinton spent nearly $4 million on political and media consultants; Obama spent about $1.4 million.

[Stephanie]

44. $5.8 million. She paid Penn $4.3M, still owes him $1.5M

I wonder what she pays Wolfson - is that on there? No wonder he's pissed off at Penn.

[Kittycat]

40. I heard it as well. They flashed a big graphic up next to tweety's head.

[wnslnadu21]

36. Glad i didn't donate to that

[mckeown1128]

45. On second thought....

she will fit in perfectly as head of the bureaucracys